The coveted unofficial electronic badges.ĭefcon has the best badges-in part out of necessity, I theorize. Oh the swagiest of swag! Epic t-shirts, cool and weird stickers, army backpacks with a bajillion pockets, personalized hotel cards, challenge coins, and the crown jewel of them all. The list goes on and on in a cornucopia of coolness.Īnd let's not forget the swag. There's the car hacking village, drone hacking, the social engineering events. Warranties are gleefully broken and tamper mechanisms are ignored or defeated in an undetectable manner. Soldering irons abound, and disassembling is encouraged. Then there are various hardware hacking villages, where routers, Wi-Fi repeaters, or anything containing a small computer is picked apart. Villages, such as the LockPick village, exist where volunteers demonstrate just how illusionary the protection a physical lock provides. And let's not forget HallCon, where you strike up a conversation with random strangers and never, not once, have them roll their eyes when you start talking about security. There's even a LineCon, consisting of the impromptu discussions that take place while waiting to register or waiting to get into a room to see a presentation. A giant melting pot of hackers, security professionals, various three-letter agency employees, lawyers, students, black hats, grey hats, white hats, IT admins, help desk warriors, journalists, activists, reversers, cypherpunks, scary pentesting voodoo red team experts, and stoic blue team defenders.ĭefcon is the conference of conferences. It is the place where you hear about the newest attack techniques, the coolest hacks, and the most spectacular security failures. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. One more year gone, one more Defcon completed.ĭefcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18.
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